Behaviour
You are being nudged
State-sponsored psychological manipulation is becoming ubiquitous
There is nothing wrong with rules
People can put down their phones for the duration of concert
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
The Cup and me
My lasting World Cup memories have nothing to do with England
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
An intervention on interventionism
US foreign policy hawks should accept a more realistic approach